Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

[email protected] (Markus Peter) Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:54:01 +0200
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.flow
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--On 25.08.2000 2:49 Uhr -0400 Steven W McDougall wrote:

> Now here's the trade off
>
>		 performance	implementation
> preemptive	high		hard
> cooperative	low		easy

That's by far not that easy. Actually I've often seen cooperative threading
implemented with a higher "performance" (meaning speed) than preemptive, but
cooperative is simply not as reliable as preemptive threading....

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Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH
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